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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Spying, Hacking and Intimidation: Israel’s Nine-Year ‘War’ on the ICC Exposed When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court…
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RFK Human Rights Award Laureate brings LGBTQ+ activism, immigration rights together in life’s work
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2024 Human Rights Award recipient Arely Westley, a trans-Latinx Honduran woman, knows well the fate of many of her sisters. She escaped from her native country of Honduras just two years after transgender activist Vicky Hernández was murdered on the streets of San Pedro Sula in 2009. And…
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Biden Should Oppose US Sanctions on ICC
Tags Share (Washington, DC) – US President Joe Biden should oppose threats and calls for punitive actions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), 121 human rights and civil society groups said today in a letter to President Biden. On May 20, 2024, the court’s prosecutor announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas and two senior Israeli officials.…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Global: New technology and AI used at borders increases inequalities and undermines human rights of migrants In a new research briefing released today, Amnesty International documents extensively the ways in which technology contributes to the growing trend of human rights violations at borders and urges that states stop using such technologies until they…
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Dispatches from Detention: Detaining the Elderly and Infirm
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by RFK Human Rights attorneys in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. Buffalo Service Processing Center, Batavia, New York March 2024 “I’m sick and I’m scared and I don’t know what to do…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns the Enforced Disappearance of Mahmoud Hussein and Reiterates Call for his Immediate Release
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is deeply concerned by the enforced disappearance of Egyptian anti-torture protestor Mahmoud Hussein, also known as the “t-shirt detainee.” Since 2014, Mahmoud has been abused and tortured by Egyptian authorities and has yet to experience complete freedom. Mahmoud was first arbitrarily arrested in 2014 for wearing a t-shirt…
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International Petition Filed on Behalf of Stop Cop City Protester Killed by Police
Tags Share “Part of what our petition seeks to do is to really vindicate Tortuguita’s memory, to really let the world know that this was a young person full of promise. This was a young person who was dedicated to care for their fellow human beings, and a young person who was going to make…
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Breaking Green: International Petition Filed on Behalf of COP City Protester Killed by Police with Anthony Enriquez
Tags Share On January 18th of last year, Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, a land defender protesting the construction of the police training complex “COP City” in Atlanta, Georgia, was killed by police gunfire. Authorities claim Tortuguita fired at officers, but forensic evidence suggests they were seated with their hands raised and…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests A public records lawsuit brought by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives revealed that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) collaborated with federal law enforcement agencies to surveil protestors in 2020 and 2021. We obtained…
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Does the perception of crime match reality?
Tags Share Speaking with Louisiana’s NBC Local 33, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez analyzes the perception and politicization of “rising crime” – and advocates for alternatives to pro-prison policies.
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“What Gets Measured Gets Managed”: Investing in Equity & Navigating DEIA Realities
Tags Share Just a few years after the murder of George Floyd and a surge of corporate commitments to promoting equity, business leaders and politicians have slashed DEI roles in their companies, introduced anti-ESG and anti-DEI bills in local and state legislatures. This has been coupled with efforts to overturn affirmative action in universities and…
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RFK Human Rights celebra la resolución sobre libertad condicional del periodista guatemalteco José Rubén Zamora y su reconocimiento con el Premio Gabo
Tags Share Washington, DC. 15 de mayo de 2024. RFK Human Rights celebra la resolución emitida por el Tribunal Noveno de Sentencia Penal en Guatemala a favor del destacado periodista guatemalteco José Rubén Zamora, ordenando su libertad condicional. Esta resolución representa un paso significativo hacia el respeto y la protección de la libertad de expresión…
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